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Most of the passengers in August used the Tallinn-Helsinki route, where passenger number reached 833,620 people. On Tallinn-Stockholm route 98,068 people travelled and on Tallinn-St Petersburg route 22,211 people did. 117,488 passengers visited Tallinn and Saaremaa with cruise ships.

"This summer shows that Tallinn is still a popular travel destination. Every summer month, over a million passengers passed through the Tallinna Sadam ports; never before has the passenger number exceeded one million in June, July and August successively," commented Port of Tallinn's marketing and communications department head Sirle Arro.

In August, Tallink serviced 51%, Viking Line 24%, Eckerö Line 12% and St Peterline 2% of the passengers; cruise passengers formed 11%.

In the eight months of 2014, the AS Tallinna Sadam has serviced a total of 6.76 million passengers, which is, as compared to the same period last year, a nearly 5.4% increase. The bulk or 82% were Tallinn-Helsinki route passengers, a total of 5.52 million. 10% travelled on the Tallinn-Stockholm route, 689,299 passengers and 99,417 passengers used the St. Petersburg route, which accounted for 1%.

From the beginning of the year, more than 440,000 cruise tourists visited the ports, which accounts for 7% of the total number of passengers.

In eight months, passenger ships visited the ports 3,332 times, 281 of those were cruise ship visits.